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Crypto 101, the introductory book on cryptography.
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better wording for description? #445

Closed ousia closed 1 year ago

ousia commented 1 year ago

@lvh,

I have just read when paging through (emphasis is mine):

Like TLS, OpenPGP is a hybrid cryptosystem. Users have key pairs consisting of a public key and a private key. Public key algorithms are used both for signing and encryption. Symmetric key algorithms are used to encrypt the message body; the symmetric key itself is protected using public-key encryption. This also makes it easy to encrypt a message for multiple recipients: only the secret key has to be encrypted multiple times.

I wonder whether this would avoid the potential ambiguity:

only the symmetric key has to be encrypted multiple times.

Many thanks for your help.

lvh commented 1 year ago

Sure, yep, that does seem a little better :) Patch welcome!

ousia commented 1 year ago

Already submitted #446.

Many thanks again for your excellent work.